Posted on 05/18/2006 5:43:57 AM PDT by Leatherneck_MT
Sorry that my home state can't help in this effort.The last "statesman" to emerge from Massachusetts died in Dallas just over 40 tears ago..
The best book on Crockett is Davis's "Three Roads to Texas." Like any man, one can admire aspects of his life while being honest about his weaknesses. I'd want him on my team any day, but I'd also want Lincoln on my team, and some here just freak out at that thought!
Oops..Freudian slip...should be years ago.
Indeed, it would be!
I am just about to pass the laptop over to my husband so he can read this, too. He wll appreciate it just as I do.
Thank you for posting this.
Cheers!
caryatid
That was excellent. Thanks for posting it. I have several liberal friends who like to say that conservatives are cold and cruel for opposing the welfare state. This will be a nice piece to send them for their pleasure and edifications.
Unfortunately our Congress has been filled by voters wanting the "government" to do them every favor, wipe every tear, right every wrong and pay for every project in their district. They see members of Congress as their personal nipple on a fat federal sow. The voters never seem to grasp that demanding a government like that takes money from their pockets in higher taxes, creates a nanny state where "for their own good" the government makes decisions for them and errodes their fundamental liberties like free speech.
Hope you both enjoyed it. This has always been one of my favorite stories about Crockett.
You're quite welcome :)
Mike Pence is a strong Christian statesman. You can learn more about him at:
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Davy Crockett, like his predecessor, Daniel Boone, was a real man. Something missing in many of today's feminized, woman-hearted American males.
Crockett was not re-elected, I believe. One of the reasons was he had a falling out with President Jackson and the Jacksonian wing of his party over the Indian removal policy.
Crockett, like Boone before him, may have been an Indian fighter, but he wasn't an Indian-hater. He realized he more in common with them than with many of his own race who were displacing them and him.
Imagine how the legislators of yesteryear would feel about all the demands for Katrina aid.
What was he doing in a bar when he was 3? Where were his parents, for heaven's sake? Out taming the frontier??
What? Oh, that's different then.
Nevermind.
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TS
LOL
disbursing money often equates to buying votes
Well said, LS.
It was only partly over Indians. It was more about land policy. He wanted cheap land for the west, Jackson didn't really care, except that he opposed anything the Whigs were for, so he opposed it. Crockett HATED Jackson.
I think he started out as a Jacksonian Democrat and later changed his mind about him.
JAckson was a vicious racist and a cheater at dueling. He was also probably an alcoholic and started the spoils system.
Even by the standards of his time, he was not a nice man.
His biggest claim to fame was staring down South Carolina over the nullification issue and the Battle of New Orleans.
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